Charles Lloyd New Quartet feat. Jason Moran, Reuben Rogers & Eric Harland

2 July,Križanke

The concerts at Križanke open-air theatre commenced at 20.00, with the gig by the legend of contemporary jazz, Charles Lloyd, and his new quartet – Jason Moran on piano, Reuben Rogers on acoustic bass, and currently one of the most promising drummers, Eric Harland.

Despite almost equally talented, top-notch performers, Lloyd stood for the axis around which music was constructed; the atmosphere finding a balance between trance-like state and subtle, yet inspiring melancholy. Contributing to the latter with an arsenal of impressionistic figures, Moran’s divergent solos and ornaments also tinged the sound with new hues.

Lloyd, who in Ljubljana played some older standards and material from his latest album, Mirror, released by ECM label, thrilled the audience. He returned to give an encore with a clarinet, rendering a substantially different improvisation – he played a longer Arabic-sounding improvisation, the others followed suit very slowly and rather dramatically, gradually and leisurely developing the song and leaving the stage of Križanke triumphantly.

                                                                            Andraž Jež